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- James Crawford served as superintendent of the Carson City Mint for ten years starting in 1874 until his death in 1885.
- The mint minted coins in 21 different years. The Carson City Mint was created in 1863 but was not put into operation until 1870.
- The act of Congress of March 3, 1863, provided the authority for the United States Mint to open a branch mint in Carson City, Nevada.
- Your first step brings you into the former Carson City Mint building where coins were minted from 1870 to 1893 – – 57 issues of silver...
- The era in which the Carson City Mint produced coins is perhaps the most fabled in American history.” - Historic American Building Survey (HABS) report.
- Coin Press No. 1 ceased operations in 1893, and the Carson City Mint officially closed in 1899 as the result of a severe decline in mining on the Comstock Lode.
- The Carson City Mint By Aaron Ware. Carson City is Nevada’s capital and is centrally located between Reno, Lake Tahoe, and Virginia City.
- The Carson City Mint produced a wide variety of circulating coinage, but it is arguably most famous for the production of the Morgan Dollar.
- In any case, massive quantities of silver necessitated a mint, and at the height of the boom, the Carson City Mint was built to turn the silver into coins.
- Curry oversaw production of the first coins ever minted in Carson City in February 1870 when silver dollars rolled off the solitary coin press.
Carson City Mint
Монетный двор США
Филиал монетного двора Соединенных Штатов в Карсон-Сити, штат Невада. В основном он чеканил серебряные монеты; однако он также чеканил золотые монеты, общая номинальная стоимость которых в долларах была почти равна стоимости его серебряных монет. Монетный двор чеканил монеты в течение 21 года.
Факты
- Дата постройки:1863 год